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Shrink rates remain steady as a percentage of sales

Retail Wire

percent in 2020, based on National Retail Federation figures. Retailers have pointed to a rise in organized retail crime as a prime driver of shrinkage in the U.S. The average shrink rate as a percentage of retail sales was 1.4 percent in 2021, down from 1.6

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Effective Ways to Utilize Video Surveillance

Independent Retailer

According to the 2020 National Retail Security Survey , retail theft, or shrinkage, is at an all-time high. In fact, in 2019, shrinkage accounted for an average rate of two percent of inventory, calculated at retail, costing the industry a record $62 billion. Reduce Retail Theft . However, the value of each incident increased.

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Effective Ways to Utilize Video Surveillance

Independent Retailer

According to the 2020 National Retail Security Survey , retail theft, or shrinkage, is at an all-time high. In fact, in 2019, shrinkage accounted for an average rate of two percent of inventory, calculated at retail, costing the industry a record $62 billion. Reduce Retail Theft . However, the value of each incident increased.

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Retail’s Last-Mile Challenge

Retail TouchPoints

Walmart in late November 2020 announced plans to acquire the platform, intellectual property and staff of last-mile delivery startup JoyRun. Competitive companies rely on focus and understanding their core competencies, solving tasks such as shrinkage and stock-out, and then taking those savings to tackle larger AI projects.

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How Acmé de la Vie is riding the Korean wave around the world

Inside Retail

In 2020, the brand teamed up with K-Pop band Twice, which has topped the Girl Group Brand Power Ranking list several times, and this year, it worked with Korean actress Sandara Park, rapper Mino and famous musical couple Dawn and Hyuna. billion in 2019. Most ADLV clothing is made in Korea. “We

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How to Deliver a Flawless In-Store Customer Experience

Independent Retailer

According to the NRF National Retail Study 2018 , inventory shrinkage costs the U.S. RFID technology can provide a technological solution to retailers by supplying knowledge of where the item went missing, allowing them to mitigate the impact of shrinkage by adjusting inventory levels to replace missing or out of stock items.

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How Retailers Meet Tough Challenges Using NVIDIA AI 

Nvidia

NVIDIA partners Everseen and Graymatics provide asset protection applications at the point of sale to reduce shrinkage and provide customers a faster self-checkout experience. Spacee is using computer vision and AI to help retailers handle these basic, repetitive tasks.

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